Miracles News

July-September, 2014

From Fear to Love: Removing the Biggest Obstacle to Peace

by Rev. Linda Wisniewski, O.M.C.

Rev. Linda Wisniewski A Course in Miracles states there are four obstacles to Peace. I would like to share my experience of working with Holy Spirit to overcome the fourth obstacle to peace: The fear of God.

In Chapter 19, Section IV D it states:

“What would you see without the fear of death? What would you feel and think if death held no attraction for you? Very simply, you would remember your Father. The creator of Life, the Source of everything that lives, the Father of the universe and of the universe of universes, and of everything that lies even beyond them would you remember.” (T-19.IV.D.1:1-4)

When I read that fear is the attraction to death, I thought this is crazy. In Linda’s dream she believed she tried to push death away, not attract it. Yet so much of Linda’s dream was filled with thoughts of death which were very fearful and which she projected onto the body in the form of pain and sickness. It wasn’t until she looked at this with Holy Spirit did she begin realizing that the fear of death was really the fear of God.

In Linda’s dream, the memory of the fear of God began when her beloved grandpa, who lived with her, left his body. Linda in the dream was 6 years old when this happened. She believed God took her grandpa away from her and she became very afraid of God and feared Him.

Who else that Linda loved was God going take away? She believed God was the cause of death. Linda believed it was too risky to love because she believed God would snatch her loved ones away. Linda also believed she must have done something terribly wrong that God would punish her by causing the death of loved ones or the loss of special love relationships.

The pain of losing her beloved grand-father and later the loss of special relationships was so great and the fear of God was so huge that she projected the pain and fear onto her body and suffered from an auto-immune syndrome. In the dream, an auto-immune syndrome is when cells in the body attack themselves and cause swelling and inflammation. However, the real cause, Linda has been learning, lies in the mind and what Linda was projecting onto the body was caused by an attack on her True Self, her God- created Self and was using the body as a defense against God’s Love.

As Linda started to look at these beliefs with Holy Spirit, asking Spirit to help her see this differently, she couldn’t help but laugh as she realized she had been a student of the wrong teacher throughout this dream life. As she now chooses Holy Spirit to be her Teacher, the fear of God and the attraction to death is gradually being undone. Holy Spirit has been very gentle and patient, knowing the depth of Linda’s terror of God.

Recently Holy Spirit has helped Linda uncover an even deeper fear of God which she now is willing to forgive. Linda not only wrongly believed that God caused the death of loved ones but that God would be the cause of her own death, i.e. that God would snatch her body away like she believed He snatched her grandfather away. Now if this isn’t the fear of God that is the biggest obstacle to Peace, I don’t know what is.

Now, with Holy Spirit as her beloved Teacher, Linda is learning that all she had believed about God and death, which led to fearing God, is a big fat lie. How could God, Who is the Creator of Love, cause death, pain and suffering? God is the Spirit of Life. The body has no life; it is neutral. In the dream it has been used by the ego thought system as a form of punishment because we believed we were guilty for separating from God and death was our punishment meted out by God.

Holy Spirit is teaching Linda that while she believes she is still dreaming, the body could be used for a holy purpose — to become a vehicle for communication to extend God’s loving Thoughts into the dream world and help the Sonship awaken from the dream. As Linda is now connecting with her True Self and through Holy Spirit’s gentle help undoing her fear of God, she is gradually losing her attraction to death. She is beginning to realize that when the body has served its holy function, it can gently be laid aside and Life will continue.

I know from the passing of loved ones, that even without the body, Minds communicate as I am in communication with others who have left their body. If Minds are joined forever, how could death be real?

With Holy Spirit as my teacher, the fear of God and the attraction to death is gradually being undone. As this obstacle is being removed, peace and joy is rising up. The Spirit of Life — the Self is coming to life as God is being remembered as Love and I am the extension of that Love as are we all.

“God turns to you to ask the world be saved, for by your own salvation is (the world) healed. And no one walks upon the earth but must depend on your decision, that he learn death has no power over him, because he shares your freedom as he shares your will. …And now is God forgiven, for you chose to look upon your brother as a friend.” (T-30.II.5:1-2,4)

Thank you Holy Spirit for teaching me that death has no power over me. I am willing to reclaim Life, Peace and Joy as my Inheritance. I reclaim you, Holy Father, as my loving Creator. I reclaim my True Self as one with my Creator. I reclaim Life, Peace, Joy and Love.

Rev. Linda Wisniewski is a Pathways of Light minister living in Plymouth, Wisconsin. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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